In message 38919B7D.19990813155556.FOO-5D74.frank@g-n-u.de Frank Heckenbach writes:

Hello, folks,

a new GPC snapshot is available:

ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/gpc-19990813.tar.gz

Help!

I'm having lots of problems building the new snapshot under RedHat Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-15 on i586) using EGCS (source RPM egcs-1.1.2-12, appears to be version 2.91.66).

I unpacked the egcs source into a directory tree, moved the snapshot's p directory into gcc, applied the gcc-egcs-2.91.66 patch (after a bit of editing of directory names within the patch file), did a ./configure, and am now trying make LANGUAGES=pascal.

Is this the correct sequence of actions? The INSTALL file in the snapshot doesn't seem to cover building GPC under EGCS.

I guess my first question is: should I be using EGCS or would I be better off with a plain gcc source, and if so what version?

Various things I've come across so far:

The p/gpc_release file contains 19990610, I think it should contain 19990813.

I think there is something strange about the way the contents of the gpc_release file is accessed - at the point where I see the make doing a cd p, I then see an error message from cat that it cannot find the gpc_release file. It looks as if there is one too few "../"s on the front of the path to the file.

In p/gpc-common.c at line 2893, TREU_OVERFLOW should be TREE_OVERFLOW, I think.

(Not a GPC problem): In my gcc/flow.c at line 1493, the code says REG_N_SEDS, it should be REG_N_SETS, I think.

Finally, I come to a halt with

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/egcs/objs/gcc' gcc -DIN_GCC -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o cc1 c-parse.o c-lang.o c-lex.o c-pragma.o c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o c-aux-info.o c-common.o collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped make[1]: *** [cc1] Error 1 make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/egcs/objs/gcc'

I think the GCC line has been truncated in copying it between systems.

Has anyone succeeded in compiling this snapshot in a similar environment?